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We are very pleased to let you know that we just released version 3.0 of PresentationTube Recorder. Now you can record and share widescreen 16:9 video presentations, capture desktop activities, and much more. PresentationTube Recorder is a simple tool designed to help instructors, students and business professionals record their PowerPoint presentations from the comfort of home or office, and without the need to have Internet connection while recording. The Recorder synchronizes presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, drawings, handwritten words and generate videos ready for uploading to PresentationTube network. With visual aids, like the drawing board, presenters can draw lines, curves, graphs, and shapes on the screen to emphasize or clarify their ideas, so the demonstration can be clearer. The whiteboard helps presenters to type text while presenting using the keyboard making it an ideal tool to add more details, or explain equations using words, numbers, and symbol...

Abstract This paper describes the technology and methodology used in the development and usability evaluation of a network, named PresentationTube, to help faculty members at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, produce and share quality video presentations for their students. The network offers a desktop application for recording video presentations and an online platform to share presentations online. The recorder allows faculty members to narrate and annotate PowerPoint slides and synchronize a variety of visual aids, including webcam footage, whiteboard, drawing board, and web browser. The platform uses YouTube API to upload and integrate videos with scrollable slide thumbnails. Quantitative and qualitative techniques including, quality of video presentation rubric, usability questionnaire, instructors’ interview and students’ perspectives to video presentations questionnaire were implemented to collect data and report on the usability of the network and effectivenes...

بعد ما يقرب من عام علي تطوير و إطلاق شبكة برزنتيشن تيوب لتسجيل و مشاركة عروض الفيديو التقديمية، و التي تم  تطويرها في جامعة السطان قابوس بسلطنة عمان تحت إشراف الدكتور علاء صادق، أستاذ تكنولوجيا التعليم بقسم تكنولوجيا التعليم و التعلم، تم اليوم رسمياً دمج الموقع كمنصة تفاعلية لرفع و مشاهدة و مشاركة عروض الفيديو التقديمية عبر موقع يوتيوب الشهير باستخدام واجهة برمجة التطبيقات (API). تمثل هذه الخطوة تطور تقني و اقتصادي هام للموقع بعد زيادة عدد مستخدمي و مطوري العروض في الموقع بشكل كبير و ازديادة تكلفة استضافة و بث عروض الفيديو وكذلك للإستفادة من الخدمات المتميزة في استضافة و بث أفلام الفيديو عبر تقنيات يوتيوب المتطورة و المجانية. يتميز هذا الدمج بإتاحة الفرصة للمستخدمين بتسجيل عروضهم باستخدام التطبيق المجاني الذي يقدمه الموقع و رفع ملفاتهم مباشرة إلي يوتيوب عبر منصة برزنتيشن تيوب و الإستفادة من الطريقة المبتكرة التي تقدمها المنصة بدمج شرائح العرض القابلة للتصفح مع الفيديو لتمكن المستخدم من مشاهدة مقطع الفيديو المرتبط بالشريحة و التحكم في مدة و كيفية العرض. يذكر ان ...

Video presentations  present a unique opportunity for educators deliberating where and how to invest their limited resources to support strategic academic priorities. Given its documented contributions to student learning and satisfaction, the move to use video presentations is becoming commonplace. Instructors are using video presentations to: • Support comprehensive plans to improve graduation rates • Offer remote learning during emergencies and campus closures • Recruit and retain top talent • Drive distance learning programs Adapted from: Echo360 Final Report 2014

Many barriers are facing the selection and development of quality e-content in the Arab region. Many of these barriers could be avoided through rapid e-learning development networks that easily encourage teachers to produce and share quality e-content themselves. PresentationTube network highlights the importance of considering the potential possibilities that online videos present when deciding how to support recent e-learning communities in the Arab region. PresentationTube project offers a video presentation recorder and video sahring platform to encourage school and university teachers in the Arab region produce and sahre quality video presentations in an easy-to-use and innovative way. The recorder automates the process and ensures that teachers only need minimal technical knowledge and spend no additional time creating materials. It allows teachers to synchronize a variety of visual aids, including presenter’s audio and video footage, PowerPoint slides, text, drawings, and w...

Typically, an educational institute stores the videos on local servers and students can connect to have them streamed to their browsers whenever they want. It is also possible to use a free or paid video streaming network, such as YouTube, Vimeo, WISTIA, Ustream, or DailyMotion to host and stream videos for students to use at any time. Unlike free video streaming services, like YouTube, paid video streaming services provide very professional and sophisticated hosting and streaming solutions, particularly for business and large companies. Usually, these services charge users per video file size and streaming bandwidth which is very costly for schools, universities, or non-profit purposes. We at PresentationTube [ http://presentationtube.com ] spent a long time hosting and streaming our videos using a paid service. Actually we enjoyed the service; very kind and useful support. But after we spent thousands of dollars per user view, we moved to YouTube, the king of free video hosting...

Presentation tools are increasing in popularity and providing powerful tools for creation of instructional materials and accessible information in audio-visual formats. When used appropriately, these tools can support and extend traditional presentations in valuable ways. In lecture settings, MS PowerPoint, for example, has become the dominant presentation tool because it is both readily available and easy-to-use by instructors (Grabe & Grabe 2007). It allows instructors to create and manipulate presentations in a wide variety of contexts that can enhance student’s interest and engagement (Mills & Roblyer, 2006). Presentation tools help instructors clearly identify the main points of a topic or activity while still providing the details through presentation (Loisel & Galer, 2004). Instructors can incorporate multiple types of media formats (e.g., diagram, photo, drawing, sound, animation, video, etc.) that cannot be easily integrated together into one single medium. Lear...